Chap. 294.—An ACT to provide for the Regulation of Railroads and
Canals within the State.

Passed March 2, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, Thgt it shall be
the duty of each and every railroad and canal company in
this state to publish its rates of charge for freights and folls,
and for the transportation of passengers, and to cause the
same to be kept conspicuously pagted up at each of its seve-
ral business stations or offices; and no such company shall
change or alter said rates, except and until after ten days
notice of such change or alteration, given in the manner
aforesaid at each of its business stations or offites, and by
publication in some newspaper published at some point on
the line of such railroad or eanal, where the same can be
done. ; 8

2. No railroad or canal company in this state, or its offi-
cers or agents, shall transport, or contract to transport,
freight or passengers at a greater or less charge than is fixed
in such published tariff of such company; and it shall be
unlawful for any such company to evade, or attempt to evade,
by drawback, or in any other manner, the provisions of this
section.

3. No railroad or canal company in this state shall, for
transportation over the same distance and in the same char-
acter of trains, charge, take or receive a higher rate for
freight consigned to or from any point withip this state than
is charged, taken or received for like freight consigned to or
from any point beyond the limits of the stata, No such
company: shall charge a greater sum for the transportation of
freight over.a part of its line than is charged for the trans-
portation of similar freight over the whole length of its
liné; and all freight and all passengers ‘of the same class,
transported over the entire length of any railroad or canal
within this state, shall pay the same rate of charge.

4: No railroad or canal company shall make or give any
undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to or in favor
of any particular person or company, or any particular de-
scription of traffic, in any respect whatsoever, nor shall any
such company subject any particular person or company, or
any particular description of traffic, to any undue or unrea-
sonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever.

5. It shall be the ‘duty of the Board of public works to
make inquiry and examination, from time to time, into acts
and proceedings of the railroad and canal companies within
this state, their officers and agents, for the purpose of ascer-
taining whether anything shall have been done, or omitted to
have been done, in violation or contravention of this act, and
if such shall be the case, to report the same to the general
assembly. } | | ,

6. Any person or company complainiy#™gainst any rail-
road or canal company of anything dope, or of any omission
made in violation or contravention of this act, may apply to
a circuit court, or to a judge thereof, who may hear and de-
termine the matter of such complaint; and if it appear to
such court or judge on such hearing, or on the report of any
commissioner to whom the subject of the complaint may
have been referred, that anything has been done, or omission
made in violation or contravention of this act, by such com-
pany: such court or judge may issue a writ of injynction re-
strdining such company from further continuing such viola-
tion or contravention of this act, and enjoining obedience to
the same.
7. This act shall be in Bree from its passage. -